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• The Woman's Hour

  the Great Fight to Win the Vote

  Weiss, Elaine F., 1952-

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  An account of the 1920 ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted voting rights to women traces the culmination of seven decades of legal battles and cites the pivotal contributions of famous suffragists and political leaders.

• The Women's Suffrage Movement

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  Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries with commentary on each period by the editor, this book covers the major issues and figures involved in the women's suffrage movement with a special focus on diversity, incorporating race, class,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Votes for Women!

  a Portrait of Persistence

  Lemay, Kate Clarke, 1978-

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  Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women is the first richly illustrated book to reveal the history and complexity of the national suffrage movement. For nearly a hundred years, from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why They Marched

  Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

  Ware, Susan, 1950-

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  For too long the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the visionary adventures of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born, who spearheaded a national movement. In this essential reconsideration, Susan Ware…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suffrage

  Women's Long Battle for the Vote

  DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-

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  Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Distinguished historian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Another Southern Town

  Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital

  Quigley, Joan,

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  Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book's heart is the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Myth of Seneca Falls

  Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

  Tetrault, Lisa

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  The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment

  An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism

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  The struggle for suffrage lasted over six decades and involved more than a million women; yet, even at the moment of the amendment's enactment, women's activists disagreed heartily over how much had been achieved, whether it was necessary for women…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Bound Up Together

  the Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900

  Jones, Martha S

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  The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Queenmaker

  How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics

  Des Jardins, Julie,

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  Marie 'Missy' Mattingly Meloney was born in 1878, in an America where women couldn't vote. Yet she recognized the power that women held as consumers and family decision-makers, and persuaded male publishers and politicians to take them seriously.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Votes for Women!

  American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot

  Conkling, Winifred,

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  For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the fiercest, most passionate women in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vote!

  Women's Fight for Access to the Ballot Box

  Frazer, Coral Celeste,

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  In the battle for the right to vote, American women faced arrest, jail time, and ridicule. They organized marches, forged alliances with other social reform movements, and lobbied powerful politicians. They saw the right to vote as a guarantee of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• With Courage and Cloth

  Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote

  Bausum, Ann

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  Award-winning author Ann Bausum chronicles the story of the women's suffrage movement in America, using compelling period photographs--including some never before published--to illustrate the vivid narrative. Great book for Teens.

• The Right to Vote

  the Contested History of Democracy in the United States

  Keyssar, Alexander

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  Originally published in 2000, this book was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Passionate for Justice

  Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time

  Meeks, Catherine,

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  Ida B. Wells was a powerful churchwoman and witness for justice and equity from 1878-1931. Born enslaved, her witness flowed through the struggles for justice in her lifetime, especially in the intersections of African-Americans, women, and those…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters

  the Lives of America's Suffragists

  Baker, Jean H

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  They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The History of Woman Suffrage. Volume IV, 1883-1900

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  This is volume four of a six-volume chronicle of the women’s suffrage movement, written over a period of 41 years. The project was conceived in 1876 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as a way to document and preserve the history of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Concise History of Woman Suffrage

  Selections From History of Woman Suffrage, Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association

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  The massive size of the original six-volume History of Woman Suffrage has likely limited its impact on the lives of the women who benefitted from the efforts of the pioneering suffragists. By collecting miscellanies like state suffrage reports and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

  McMillen, Sally Gregory, 1944-

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  In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920

  Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn

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  Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who fought for the right to vote. She analyzes the women's own stories, and examines why they joined and how they participated in the U.S.…Read moreRead more of this annotation